Walker, Joseph (2)
Walker, Joseph (1)
an English Congregational minister, was born in 1802. Mr. Walker was for many years a teacher in the public schools. He graduated with high honors at Airedale College, and became pastor of Northallerton Independent Church. After years of patient labor, he removed to Hexham, and in 1855 set-led at Derby. Mr. Walker was well versed in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and possessed special facilities of imparting his knowledge to others. He died Dec. 2, 1867. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869, p. 293.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Walker, Joseph (2)
an English Wesleyan minister, was converted at the age of fourteen under the ministry of John Crosby. In 1811 he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry. Owing to an affection of the brain, he was temporarily laid aside at Dover from 1834 to 1836. He became a supernumerary at Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1845, and died April 14, 1857, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. His entire course was one of great usefulness. See Wesleyan Minutes, 1857.